Terms of Occupancy unites a series of site-responsive interventions into a single immersive environment. Individually, each work examines a particular system of maintenance, failure, adaptation, authority, or control. Together they reveal the apartment itself as a living archive of competing interests: ownership and tenancy, repair and decay, aspiration and compromise.
Throughout the exhibition, ordinary architectural features are reconsidered as active participants in contemporary life. Walls conceal histories. Fixtures mediate access to resources. Infrastructure announces itself through failure. The distinction between maintenance and neglect becomes increasingly unstable.
Rather than presenting domestic space as a neutral backdrop, Christoff positions the apartment as a dynamic system shaped by economics, labor, memory, and endurance. Every repair records a decision. Every omission leaves a trace. Every surface becomes evidence.
The exhibition proposes that habitation itself constitutes a form of participation. The occupant is not merely a viewer but a collaborator, inheriting the accumulated consequences of previous interventions while contributing new layers of adaptation and interpretation.